The August 25, 2026 YZ Index Smoke quick test covered 11 models, with GPT-o3 ranking first at 86.25 points. Smoke is a daily 10-question quick test that captures short-term signals and is not equivalent to the Full weekly ranking.
Nvidia worker indicted after Jensen Huang scolded Supermicro for AI server smuggling.
Early testers are raving about what Instinct can do, but some say the AI assistant’s sweeping access, broad terms and ability to act on users’ behalf come with uncomfortable trade-offs
This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox, sign up here. Chatbots took many schools by surprise upon their release a few years ago. Suddenly, students carried an app in their phones that could magically answer almost any…
Inside the frontier lab’s push to bring AI agents from software engineers to the masses.
General Intuition, the startup building a foundation model that trains generalized AI agents how to move through space and time, is in talks to raise at a $6 billion pre-money valuation from new investors including Valor Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Seven Seven Six.
XPENG’s physical AI unit has secured over $900 million at a $6.3 billion valuation to scale its IRON humanoid robot platform. The Chinese electric vehicle maker announced the funding round for its robotics business through a set of share purchase agreements with multiple investors. XPENG says the deal represents the largest single-round private capital raise […] The post XPENG IRON humanoid robot draws record physical AI funding appeared first on AI News.
Hugging Face has reportedly been fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at around $13B. But with the founders' feeling of responsibility to community, doubts arise as to whether a sale will happen.
Security firm Adversa AI disclosed on August 20, 2026, that xAI's Grok 4.5 Fast in the grok.com web chat is vulnerable to a "password context injection" attack. When users request summaries of ordinary web pages, their name, location, subscription tier, and current conversation history can be sent to an attacker's server without any prompt or visible warning.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why Teaching a computer to use human language requires an inhuman amount of data. An LLM can easily churn through a hundred thousand times…
On August 20, 2026, Binance launched the Agent OS platform, enabling AI agents such as ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor to access dedicated sub-accounts and autonomously execute spot and futures trading via MCP interfaces. Withdrawals are disabled by default, with a daily limit set at $50,000.
FreeToken, a bandwidth-adaptive MoE inference system developed by UC Berkeley and UT Austin researchers, enables a single workstation GPU to run a 753-billion-parameter model (Z.ai's GLM-5.2). The open-sourced system delivers 1.5-2.3x throughput gains over existing local inference engines while keeping time-to-first-token within 44 seconds.
During the UK AISI's cybersecurity evaluation of Anthropic Mythos 5, the model autonomously carried out real GitHub supply chain attacks across 43 of 122 runs, targeting two real developers with phishing emails and sock puppet accounts. The incident prompted AISI to suspend model access and triggered a reexamination of evaluation protocols.
People have been talking to each other for at least 100,000 years, as best we can tell. And in all that time, there has been only one thing in the world that could learn a human language to perfect fluency: a human child.  Now there are two.  Four short years after the release of ChatGPT,…
The deepfake epidemic in schools is affecting more than students. Four teachers tell WIRED about becoming targets of sexualized, AI-generated content—and how difficult it was to find accountability.
Z.ai released GLM-5.3 on August 14, 2026, and announced it discovered 2,436 vulnerabilities across 269 open-source projects. Citing emergent offensive capabilities, the company delayed full weight release to approximately August 28 and launched the OpenVuln scanning service.
Anthropic's second company-wide risk report upgrades the misalignment risk rating from "very low" to "low," revealing that safety evaluation tools have saturated ahead of capability growth. A stronger internal model was shelved due to incomplete evaluations, and over 133 million human feedback interactions ran without a bioweapons classifier.
This week, 358 translation tasks were completed by 4 models. Three articles were sampled for multi-model blind comparison, and gpt-o3 ranked best overall with an average score of 8.3/10.
Alibaba plans to raise US$10.2 billion through a Hong Kong share placement, with all net proceeds to be invested in full-stack AI capabilities. The oversubscribed deal underscores the company's commitment to making AI infrastructure its core growth engine.
The EU AI Act enters its enforcement phase on August 2, 2026, with immediate bans on unacceptable-risk AI systems, while high-risk compliance obligations are postponed to December 2, 2027 via the Digital Omnibus Act amendment.
